A monk accommodating graduate in a state (7)
I believe the answer is:
alabama
'a state' is the definition.
(Alabama is an example)
'a monk accommodating graduate' is the wordplay.
'monk' becomes 'lama' (I've seen this before).
'accommodating' indicates putting letters inside.
'graduate' becomes 'ba'.
'lama' going around 'ba' is 'labama'.
'a'+'labama'='ALABAMA'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for alabama that I've seen before include "US state in the cotton belt" , "American state, capital Montgomery (7)" , "Southern US state" , "US state on the Gulf of Mexico" , "State of southeastern US" .)